Heel lift for french heels



L. G. FLETCHER HEEL LIFT FOR FRENCH HEELS March 17, 1925.

Filed Jan. 14, 1922 WITNESSES L. G. I ZGZC/ZBIZ 7 BY I ' ATTORNEYS Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

UNITED STATES LEWIS GLENN FLETCHER, OF LA FAYETTE, INDIANA.

HEEL LIFT FOR EnEncrr HEELS.

Application filed January 14, 1922. Serial No. 529,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEwIs G. FLETCHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of La Fayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel Lifts for French Heels, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to shoe heels, and more particularly to heel lifts for ladies French heels, my object being the provision of a lift which may be secured in place by a single fastening member penetrating the heel and which has means to prevent rotation of the cap, engaging the heel but not penetrating the same.

It has before been proposed to secure rubber and other heel lifts in place by a single fastening member penetrating the heel together with certain projections from the lift adapted to enter recesses in the lower surface of the heel against which the lift is applied, but it is "not feasible to use such a connection on ladies French heels of either wooden or compressed paper material, on account of the danger of splitting where more than a single penetration or penetrating member is required. Moreover in small French heels there is insufiicient space to provide for the penetration of but a sin gle fastening member and my invention therefore proposes a heel lift of this type having but a single penetrating member but having in addition thereto certain projecting portions capable of engagement with the breast of 'the heel in such manner as to prevent rotation of the heel lift without actually penetrating any part of the heel.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the practical application of my invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through a heel to which my improved heel lift is applied,

Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the'several parts in detached relation.

Referring now to these figures my invention resides particularly in a heel lift 10 for ladies French heels 11 of either wood or paper material, the lift itself being formed of rubber, leather or composition material of any character, applied against the face or lower surface of the heel with or without an interposed plate 12, and having therein a rigid apertured plate or disk 13. This disk or plate 13 is embedded in any suitable manner within the lift 10 adjacent to the concave edge 14 of the latter which coincides with the breast 15 of the heel to which it is to be applied, so the remaining portions of the edge of the lift may be readily and easily trimmed to correspond exactly with the contour of the heel.

Through the single aperture of the embedded plate or-disk 13 a single fastening member 16 extends, the latter preferably in the form of a screw constituting the single fastening means of a nature requiring penetration of the heel 11, the outer end of this screw having a head 17 by which through its engagement with the plate or disk 13, the latter arrests the cap connecting screw in the effective position of the latter shown particularly in Figure 2.

In further accordance with my invention the embedded plate or disk 13 has spaced angularly bent extensions 18, terminating in tongues 19 which project externally of the cap beyond its concave edge 14 as seen particularly in Figure 4 and which are bent angularly beyond the inner surface of the lift soas to engage the breast 15 of the heel to which the lift is applied, at laterally spaced points and thereby prevent rotation of the lift 10 without necessitating more than a single penetration of the heel 11, it being understood that while these tongues 19 engage the breasts of the heel, this engagement is but a surface engagement and no penetration is required.

By thus adapting the tongues for engagement with the breast of the heel, easy fitting of a lift to a heel is promoted and effective connection is permitted with but a single penetrating member, the tongues being in practice of but such slight propor tions that they are nearly if not quite invisible.

I claim:

A heel lift adapted to be connected to a shoe heel by a single fastening member, said lift being formed of plastic material and having a plate embedded in said material and apertured to receive a fastening member, a

fastening member extending through the lift projecting slightly beyond the inner surfor penetration of the heel and which is arface of the cap. to engage the breast of a rested in effective position by the said late, heel at laterally spaced points and prevent 10 the said plate having relatively short aterrotation of the lift Without penetrating the 5 ally" spaced tongues projecting angularly heel.

from one inner edge beyond the adj aoent edge of the lift and terminating in stifi blunt ends LEVIS GLENN FLETCHER. 

